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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






2. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






3. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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4. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






6. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






7. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






8. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






9. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






10. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






11. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






12. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






13. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






14. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






15. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






16. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






17. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






18. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






19. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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20. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






22. Wide Range Achievement Test






23. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






24. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






25. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






26. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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27. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






28. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






29. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






30. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






31. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






32. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






33. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






34. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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35. Final stable syllable

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36. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






37. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






38. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






39. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






40. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






41. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






42. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






43. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






44. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






45. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






46. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






47. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






48. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






50. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.







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